Charity riders thank south-east

Eighteen cyclists who rode through the south-east of South Australia last week for charity raised about $45,000.

The Ride4Repat was a seven-day challenge to ride from Adelaide to Mount Gambier and back, to raise money for the Daw House Hospice Foundation and Foundation Daw Park at the Repatriation General Hospital.

Organiser Peter Jenkin said they went close to doubling their fundraising target.

"The community engagement and links we've made throughout the south-east have been just absolutely fantastic," he said.

"The community spirit and the generosity that people and organisations have shown towards us as we have ridden through and stopped in the different towns is something that none of us could ever have thought was going to be happening. We can't thank the people of the south-east enough."